Guests lounged on picnic tables and barrels of hay.
Indaco's rock shrimp and grouper
Cru Cafe beef sliders from Chef Travers
The High Cotton team posed with their creations.
Festus Mountain duck rillettes
Caviar and Banana's buttermilk panna cotta
Caviar and Bananas and their sweet treats.
Farrato Arancine from Monza
Monza, located at 451 King Street, used Sea Island red peas for their "pea-strami" on rye.
Monza plating
Sea scallop and hickory smoked pork belly from Poogan's Porch
Glass Onion with their dish of shrimp salad, fava sprouts, and strawberries. "Everything here is gluten free and vegetarian or pescatarian."
The Glass Onion plating
The Grocery plated spring vegetable and crab soup.
Spring vegetable and crab soup
Middleton Place presented a "Lowcountry Gumbo" featuring St. Jude's farm seafood.
Basico's heirloom bean salad
The Basico team was all smiles under the tent outside.
Two Boroughs Larder wood-grilled clams
Carrie Baxter-Christ, Beth Tompkins, Sheila Anderson and Stacy Voight
Cameron Beaty and Susan Rawlings
Monica and Brad Williams
Firefly Vodka created tasty concoctions with their vodka and rum.
David Thompson, Bart Yancey, Lindsay Smith-Yancey, Sara Thompson, S. Renee Singletary and Harold Singletary
A display table of auction items
Nathan Adamson and Callie Tivnan volunteered for Lowcountry Local First.
Rebecca and Carter Deupree with Jennifer and Sean Murray
Misty Lister, the Marketing and Communications Director of Lowcountry Local First, thanked all of the chefs and farmers for their contributions.
Guests dined on delicious, local food at tables under a large tent, as well as at picnic tables spread out around Middleton Place.
Phyllis Sheffer and Carol Williams
Guests enjoyed the warm weather while dining under sweeping oaks covered in Spanish moss.
Sam Wrigglesworth, Sam Fuhr, Meyer Fuhr and Jacob Fuhr
Caviar and Bananas offered guests Palmetto Brewery Espresso Porter Whoopie pies.
Sallie Halsey and Patti Byrd
Wally Seinsheimer, Darcy Shankland, Misty Lister and Shane Lakshmana Lasby
High Cotton served up duck rilletes and Joseph Fields Farm strawberry jelly rolls.
Indaco plated for the 300 guests.
Tarah Simmons, Jeanne DeCamilla, and David Simmons
The bartenders were all smiles.
Eli, George and Natalie Kruse
Janet McKim and Jack Love
Keegan and Colleen Deihl and Mark, Lucy and Kimberly Krauk
Kat Rojina and Maura Riordan
Chris Stewart, Ann Marshall, Scott Blackwell and Angel Postell
The Wholly Cow crew served up "Benne Bites."
Sarah Song and Stan Warren
Farmer Jim Martin and Lowcountry Local Firsts’ Director of Sustainable Agriculture Nikki Kelley
Cru Cafe beet sliders with beets marinated in honey sherry vinaigrette.
The Cru Cafe crew, with sous chef Rachel Blumenstock and head chef Travers Horton (far right).
Beet sliders
FIG and The Ordinary's tartine of poached chicken with sauce gribiche
EVO plated pastrami sandwiches.
Delectable pastrami
EVO Pizzeria was a crowd favorite.
Two Borough's wood-grilled clams
Delicious, tiny clams
Kate DeWitt and Allen Martin
The Garage Cuban Band
Harleston Towles, Charlotte Caldwell and Larry Downey
Jeanne DeCamilla and Jamee Haley, Executive Director of Lowcountry Local First
Olivia Thompson and Harry Crissy
Shaun and Marti Mullen, Eddie and Nancy Plowden, Myriam and Ron Owens, Jamee and Jim Haley
Jon Yarian, Melissa Ellis-Yarian and Jeff Allen
It was the perfect day to celebrate locally produced and harvested vegetables, meats and seafood.
The auctioneer kept things lively as guests competed for get-away trips and elaborate dinners.
Nancy Nelson, Jim Mueller, Rene Mueller and Eric Nelson
The auctioneer got up close and personal with bidders.
The guests applauded for the top bidder who won a clamming trip with Clammer Dave.
Jim Martin and the other participating local farmers gathered at the end of the event for a group picture.
The local farmers gathered for a group shot
